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I've been reading Bruno Latour (anthropologist and sociologist of science studies) for about a year, but I only just found out that he co-curated an art show for ZKM in 2002! duh. It's called Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art. The essay he wrote for the catalogue is pretty good. I love Latour because he is so interdisciplinary in the way that he conceptualizes the construction of meaning: networks, hybrids, non-human agency (extending to objects and apparatus), nature/culture come together. I think of Latour as post-postmodern (there has to be a better word for it) because he is trying to get discursive construction and empirical reality back together. I've just been reading Jacques Rancière for school and he seems to have a similar agenda. Maybe its a French thing. Anyhow, I like it. Here's a snippet from Latour's Iconoclash essay. If westerners had really believed they had to choose between construction and reality (if they had been consistently modern), they would never have had religion, art, science, and politics. Mediations are necessary everywhere. If you forbid them, you may become mad, fanatic, but there is no way to obey the command and choose between the two-polar opposites: either it is made or it is real. That is a structural impossibility, an impasse, a double bind, a frenzy. It is as impossible as to request a Bunraku player to have to choose, from now on, between showing his puppet or showing himself on the stage. |
Cartoon by Joe McKay
Rob Cruickshank at Fly Gallery
Movie here
Fly Gallery: a tiny window space that predates the Drake, still showing art in the middle of Queen Street West youth trend fashion madness crazy party fun time. Rob Cruickshank: a guy who understands groovy optics, and knows how to wire circuits and make things go. Perfect combination.
Rob Cruickshank, Selectric (2010). Kinetic sculpture based on a rotating type ball from an IBM Selectric typewriter, with stroboscopic illumination. At Fly Gallery, 1172 Queen Street West, Toronto, until January 31st, 2010. (Viewable 24 hours a day, but best seen at night.)
Miklos Legrady - The Execution of Color
[digital projection and mural prints 44"x66" / 111.76cm x 139.7cm]
Many thanks to Morris Wolfe for tipping me off to this very funny and insightful review of Brian Boyd' s On The Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Michael Bérubé. I'm planning to read the Boyd book because it sounds like it's in a different league from Dennis Dutton's The Art Instinct (by different I mean not ludicrous) and the suggestion that fiction is necessary for human survival is a topic dear to my heart. But I already like Bérubé's sardonic take better than either of them.
excerpt:
“[Richard] Dawkins points out that he could with equal validity, though with less impact, have called his famous first book not The Selfish Gene but The Cooperative Gene.”
Well, that’s nice to know after all these years, now that three decades of popular-science enthusiasts have convinced themselves that Nature herself speaks in the language of Ayn Rand. One hopes the word will get around.
Lorna Mills' top events and such for 2009 (And this is it for lists, you can now write 2010 on your cheques after you read this post. We apologize for delaying the new year.)
1. The re-enactment, using puppets, of a Top Secret Wedding ceremony, performed at an undisclosed location, by two people who shall remain un-named.
2. Daniel Barrow's Prank Phone Call to Divya Mehra that kicked off the web project REPLYall organized by Art Metropole and SAVAC
3. Joe McKay's iPhone app BIG TIME
Joe very helpfully explained that this app was all about me, more to the point, what time it is just for me, based on my exact distance from the prime meridian.
Admitedly, I had a bit of trouble downloading the app to my own iPhone,
(mostly because, as an iPhone developer myself, I have been provided with one so technologically advanced that I have to get a man to help me use it.) There's a web version to clicky-click on too.
4. jimlouis' writing.
5.Oliver Laric's documentary video Versions paired with
the version of Versions starring Guthrie Lonergan as the
. (My Preview Version of Versions does not make anyone's lists, so I may give myself a top spot next year.)
6. Jon Rafman's IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View for Art Fag City.
7. Ed Pien's installation at the Tree Museum
8. Emmor Ray Sperry's boardgame designs.
9. Photos from the City of Toronto Archives:
That first image is actually from my house, but don't worry I fixed that nasty hole in the wall with a Derek Sullivan piece that happened to be handy.
(I sort of regret it now since his most recent show was on Jon Davies' top ten list)